During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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The Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship resulting from the diplomatic relationship between the United States and France.
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A baboon called Jackie became a private in the South African army in World War I.
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Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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Leonardo Da Vinci made a robotic lion in 1515 that would walk, sway, open its mouth and move its tail - it even had a compartment that opened to present flowers.
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